Contents:- About the Contributors... I INTRODUCTION (Hans-Ber;nd Zöllner): Plays on the Fringe 4 Ba Thoung?s Vision and Nu?s Dream; Unplayed Plays - Unrealised Visions of Modernity; About This Volume... II MATERIAL on Nu, Modern Drama: 1 Bibliographical Information (Kyaw Hoe, Translation: Gunnar Peters); Title Page; 2 Critique of Nu "Modern Plays" in the Nagani Weekly; 3 Htay Htay Myint, Book Review (Translation: Thakin Hla Kun); Introduction; Play 1: U Klein; Play 2: Naung Daw Chut-Khan; Play 3: Sukara; Play 4: The Husband of a Wicked Wife; Play 5: An Elephant Must Lose Its Life; 4 Translation (Tin Hlaing); U Kalein; The Husband of a Bad Wife; The Wife of a Bad Husband; Get a Husband, Kill an Elephant; Sukra; 5 Nu, Forward to "Wolf the Wolf of Man"... III MATERIAL on BA THOUNG, An Enemy of the People; 1 Bibliograpgraphical Information (Kyaw Hoe, Translation: Gunnar Peters)173 Reproduction of Title Page ; Reproduction of Title Page (2nd Edition, 1963); Nu and Ba Thoung, Plays; 2 Preface to the First Edition (Translation: Tin Hlaing); 3 Tin Hlaing, Book Review; Thakin Ba Thaung; Summary of the Play; The Translation of Terms and Concepts; Impact; 4 Kyaw Nyaing, Book Review1... V APPENDICES: SHORT INFORMATION on the MAKING of the BOOK REPORTS; INFORMATION about COMMENTARIES on BOOK REPORTS